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Che Guevara

Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, 1928 to 1967

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A doctor who joined Fidel Castro’s revolution, helped run Cuba and tried to spread guerrilla revolutions abroad before being killed in Bolivia. He became a global symbol of rebellion, and is criticized for executions in Cuba.

Che Guevara sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly interventionist on interventionism and strongly anti-establishment on institutions.

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Where Che Guevara sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Che Guevara

Kwame Nkrumah Leader of Ghana, 1957 to 196696%Vladimir Lenin Head of the Soviet government, 1917 to 192495%Leon Trotsky Soviet revolutionary and founder of the Red Army95%Karl Marx German philosopher and economist, 1818 to 188390%Frantz Fanon Martinique-born psychiatrist and revolutionary, 1925 to 196190%Fidel Castro Leader of Cuba, 1959 to 200886%Antonio Gramsci Italian Marxist thinker, 1891 to 193785%Ho Chi Minh President of North Vietnam, 1945 to 196985%

People furthest from Che Guevara

Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 19954%Ron Paul US Representative from Texas, 1997 to 20135%Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 19108%Rand Paul US Senator from Kentucky, 2011 to present8%

Political views closest to Che Guevara

Marxism-LeninismAims at a classless society through revolution and a single party ruling on behalf of…95%TrotskyismA Marxist current that backs world revolution and workers' democracy and opposes…93%MaoismA Marxist-Leninist current built on peasant-based revolution and mass mobilization under…86%BolivarianismA Latin American left movement mixing socialism, nationalism and Simón Bolívar's dream…80%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Alberto Korda, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.